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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Wander@yiffit.net to c/meta@yiffit.net

After reading this post here I took a deep dive into the database and ran a few queries to see if I could use it to detect some basic manipulation such as brigading or other types of persistent hostile behavior.

I'd describe this as people who could have blocked a certain community but instead seemingly dedicate themselves to continuously downvote posts, maybe because they don't like furry stuff in general.

Each line in the image corresponds to one person and how many times they have downvoted posts in a given community.

I won't take any actions right now, this is all very experimental. I just wanted to share this with y'all to let you know that we admins have tools to give us clues about whether some sort of brigading is going on.

Interesting stuff. Personally, I'd urge people who don't like furry stuff to just block a community and carry on. There's nothing to be gained by obsessing yourself with stuff you don't like.

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[-] Wander@yiffit.net 11 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I had to join something like 4 database tables together.

I'm interested in seeing if someone could develop a statistical model that could accurately detect certain behavior. I can query the data but I don't know enough statistics to really make use of it.

this post was submitted on 09 Jul 2023
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